Ever thought of reassignment as being a terrorist act?
You might want to read this e-mail message that was sent to the school board. It's written by a Preston resident who is upset about the proposed reassignment of students from Green Hope High to Cary High and from West Cary Middle to East Cary Middle.
Headline: PRESTON COMMUNITY ROCKED BY MAJOR "BLAST"
I realize it's a week away, but I'm interested in hearing from people who plan to speak at the Dec. 8 community engagement meeting at Broughton High School.
Please shoot me an e-mail message at keung.hui@newsobserver.com or call me at 829-4534 if you expect to be there next week.
It's appropriate that Cary High is the host for tonight's community engagement meeting considering how central it is to many of the groups that will be speaking.
As noted in today's article, one group doesn't want to be reassigned out of Cary High. Two groups don't want to be forced to attend the school. A fourth group wants to be sent to Cary High.
Based on the expected turnout, it's probably a good idea to get there as early as 6 p.m. tonight when the signup sheets are distributed.
Millbrook High School is taking a beating from parents at other schools during this reassignment season.
As noted in today's North Raleigh News article, parents complained about Millbrook during last week's community engagement meeting at Knightdale High. In particular, some Baileywick Elementary parents say changing the high school assignment from Leesville to Millbrook will have major repercussions.
Buyer's remorse seems to be setting in among Broughton High School parents over the decision to save the magnet program.
As noted in today's article, some parents whose neighborhoods are in the draft reassignment plan are saying that Broughton no longer needs the magnet program. They're asking the school board to revisit the magnet vote in hopes that demagnetization will spare a mass reassignment out of Broughton.
What may help these parents is that families who aren't in the draft are getting scared that they'll be next. It's limiting the number of Broughton parents who might lobby to save the magnet program.
Can you imagine a year without reassignment hearings?
It could happen next year. But it's not something that would necessarily be a good thing as far as school leaders are concerned.
A couple of things would have to happen.
This is for the people who may have missed this cartoon in Wednesday's North Raleigh/Midtown Raleigh News.
Eastern Wake parents voiced their discontent with the reassignment proposal at Thursday's community engagement meeting.
As noted in today's article, several speakers argued that Eastern Wake schools need more resources. Knightdale High is the only Eastern Wake school whose F&R percentage is under 40 percent.
Assistant Superintendent Chuck Dulaney told speakers it was a question of resources. (Unlike the school board's hearings on reassignment, speakers at CEM meetings will get responses to questions.)
From the school system's perspective, tonight is the real start of the community engagement meeting process.
Here are some things to keep in mind if you go tonight to Knightdale High. It pays to be early since the sign-up sheet for speakers will be put out at 6 p.m., 30 minutes before the start of the meeting.
Don't think that because tonight's meeting is at Knightdale that it means it's only for Eastern Wake residents. If history repeats itself, tonight could actually be a good opportunity to have your say.
Cary Town Councilman Don Frantz is venturing back into the world of student reassignment.
Frantz sent this letter to the school district to object to the proposed reassignment of 84 students from Cary High to Apex High. He complains it's unfair to move the students, who are mostly from low-income families.
Administrators have proposed moving the students "to allow middle school students to move to high school with their peers." It would also "increase the number of low-income students at Apex High to make Apex High more in line with the county average for low-income students."
